Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess the quality of videos on YouTube as educational resources about refractive surgery.
Methods: This is a retrospective, cross-sectional, register-based study. A search of YouTube was performed for the term "refractive surgery" without any changes to the Web site's standard search preferences. The first 160 videos were recorded. Additional videos from the search engine were also searched for the other common terms "LASIK," "PRK," and "laser eye surgery." The first 50 videos for each additional term were evaluated. A total of 310 videos were evaluated regarding DISCERN score (min-max: 16-75), Journal of the American Medical Association score (min-max: 0-4), and Global Quality score (min-max: 0-5).
Results: Once 135 videos that did not meet the inclusion criteria were excluded from the sample, the remaining 175 videos were analyzed. The mean DISCERN, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Global Quality scores were 33.25 ± 15.34 (poor quality), 0.74 ± 0.82 (lowest quality), and 1.74 ± 0.81 (poor quality), respectively. Of the 175 videos, 77 (42%) had been uploaded by physicians, 67 (38.2%) by health channels, 16 (9.1%) by patients, and another 15 (8.5%) by medical organizations.
Conclusions: Although some of the analyzed online videos contain beneficial information, YouTube videos do not generally seem to be useful as educational resources for patients about refractive surgery. Nevertheless, health care professionals should continue to assess the reliability and usefulness of medical information provided by online resources from the viewpoint of patients.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ICO.0000000000002237 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Social determinants of contraception use among rural adolescents: Implications for addressing disparities.
J Rural Health
January 2025
Independent Researcher, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Purpose: Few studies have examined disparities in-and social determinants of-contraception use among rural adolescents despite evidence of higher teen birth rates and greater STI risk in rural communities. Guided by a social determinants of health (SDoH) framework, this cross-sectional study aimed to address these gaps.
Methods: Data come from the 2018 Healthy Youth Survey, including N = 3757 sexually active, rural-based adolescents.
Copper-coordination driven brain-targeting nanoassembly for efficient glioblastoma multiforme immunotherapy by cuproptosis-mediated tumor immune microenvironment reprogramming.
J Nanobiotechnology
December 2024
Key Laboratory of Emergency and Trauma of Ministry of Education, Engineering Research Center for Hainan Biological Sample Resources of Major Diseases, the Hainan Branch of National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, the First Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 570102, China.
Limited drug accumulation and an immunosuppressive microenvironment are the major bottlenecks in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Herein, we report a copper-coordination driven brain-targeting nanoassembly (TCe6@Cu/TP5 NPs) for site-specific delivery of therapeutic agents and efficient immunotherapy by activating the cGAS-STING pathway and downregulating the expression of PD-L1. To achieve this, the mitochondria-targeting triphenylphosphorus (TPP) was linked to photosensitizer Chlorin e6 (Ce6) to form TPP-Ce6 (TCe6), which was then self-assembled with copper ions and thymopentin (TP5) to obtain TCe6@Cu/TP5 NPs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopment of a set of indicators for the quality of chronic pain management in Chinese community-dwelling older adults: a Delphi study.
BMC Geriatr
December 2024
Harbin Medical University, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China.
Background: Standardized and systematic quality assessments of chronic pain management, particularly among older adult populations, are lacking in resource-limited community settings. A specific set of indicators to evaluate the quality of chronic pain management in this population has yet to be developed. Therefore, the present study constructed a set of indicators to assess the quality of chronic pain management in Chinese community-dwelling older adults, providing a standardized reference and guidance for community health centers to manage chronic pain in this population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAEGAN-Pathifier: a data augmentation method to improve cancer classification for imbalanced gene expression data.
BMC Bioinformatics
December 2024
School of Computer Engineering, Jiangsu Ocean University, Lianyungang, 222005, China.
Background: Cancer classification has consistently been a challenging problem, with the main difficulties being high-dimensional data and the collection of patient samples. Concretely, obtaining patient samples is a costly and resource-intensive process, and imbalances often exist between samples. Moreover, expression data is characterized by high dimensionality, small samples and high noise, which could easily lead to struggles such as dimensionality catastrophe and overfitting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of prehospital care for neurotrauma in Iran.
Spinal Cord
December 2024
Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Study Design: Narrative review.
Background: Neurotrauma has a considerable impact on healthcare, the economy, and human resources worldwide. In Iran, young males are especially vulnerable, with road traffic accidents (RTAs) being the major cause.
Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!